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“... long time to the search for long-term causes of the Civil War. The same may perhaps be said of Dr Galloway’s discussion of the Jacobean project for the union of England and Scotland. Dr Galloway stresses how limited James’s proposals for union remained, even at their most ambitious. What came about in 1603 was, in the ...”

“... to be William Wallace.’ ‘No,’ Martin corrected him. ‘Alex Salmond wants to be Robert the Bruce.’ Wallace has been cast as ‘the people’s champion’, a role he played in the 1975 novel The Wallace by the prolific Nigel Tranter and, twenty years later, in Braveheart. But Martin was right that the appeal of ...”

“... speaker stacks or Ferris wheels at Wigtown. It’s a serious book festival in a small town in Galloway, with a large screen on the village green, marquees in the school playground and a pop-up bar in the local garage. Our stand was beside people selling honey and pottery, and since we were only selling the chance to be part of our research there wasn’t ...”

“... the slum landlords’ petty exploitations and the demolition-happy dogma of the state. In 1963, Bruce Kenrick – who would a few years later set up the homelessness charity Shelter, just as the nation was absorbing the shock of Cathy Come Home, Ken Loach’s film about homelessness – founded the Notting Hill Housing Trust, which today, as the Notting ...”